A Canandaigua City Police officer charged with assault in connection with a domestic dispute at his home Saturday night is also facing drug charges, according to Ontario County District Attorney Mike Tantillo.

Ontario County sheriff’s deputies said Officer Wayne D. Fenton, 45, was charged in connection with a physical confrontation with a woman at his home at 4649 North Road. Deputies charged Fenton with third-degree assault and criminal obstruction of breathing, which is defined as “an intent to impede the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of another person, and either applied either pressure on the throat or neck of such person or blocks the nose or mouth of such person,” Tantillo said.

The victim called 911 to report the incident and Fenton left the scene before law enforcement arrived Saturday night, May 31, deputies said. Fenton then turned himself in to the sheriff’s office around 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 1. Fenton was sent to the Ontario County Jail for booking around 10 a.m. and was released on bail an hour later at 11:02 a.m, Ontario County Undersheriff Tillman said.

Fenton, along with his wife, Rebecca Laware, 43, will also face charges in connection with growing marijuana at their North Road residence, Tantillo said. Charges of unlawfully growing marijuana and fifth-degree criminal possession of marijuana will come today or tomorrow, Tantillo said.

The drug charges were the result of the investigation into the domestic dispute, Tantillo said.